Illinois Fighting Illini men's golf
| Illinois Fighting Illini men's golf | |
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| University | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Location | Urbana, Illinois |
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| Course | Stone Creek Golf Club Par: 72 Yards: 7,118 |
| Nickname | Illinois Fighting Illini |
| Colors | Orange and Blue |
| NCAA Individual Champions | |
| Scott Langley (2010) Thomas Pieters (2012) |
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| NCAA Team Appearance | |
| 1940, 1941, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 | |
| Conference Champions | |
| 1923, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1940, 1941, 1988, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 | |
| Individual Conference Champions | |
| R.E. Rolfe (1923) Richard Martin(1930, 1931) Alex Welsh (1941) James McCarthy (1942) Mike Toluiuszis (1962) Mike Chadwick (1982) Steve Stricker (1986, 1988, 1989) Jamie Fairbanks (1993) Larry Nuger (1999) Luke Guthrie (2011, 2012) Thomas Pieters (2013) Nick Hardy (2015) |
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The Illinois Fighting Illini men's golf team represents the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the sport of golf. The Fighting Illini compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big Ten Conference (Big Ten). They play their home matches on the Stone Creek Golf Club five miles from the university's campus, and are currently led by head coach Mike Small. The Fighting Illini men's golf program has won 13 Big Ten championships and in 2013 finished as national runner-up at the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, which was the highest finish in the program's history. 2014 was the third time in the past four years the program had qualified for the match play portion of the NCAA Men's Golf Championships in which the final eight teams compete in a bracket format.
Note: 1st = first team, 2nd = second team, 3rd = third team, HM = honorable mention
Two Illini have won the individual NCAA national title: Luke Guthrie (2010), and Thomas Pieters (2012). Since 1923, twelve Fighting Illini golfers have won fifteen Big Ten individual titles. Thirty Fighting Illini golfers have earned fifty-two All-Big Ten honors.
Mike Small is the head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini men's golf team, and 2014–15 will be his fifteenth season with the Fighting Illini. He is a six-time Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, and is also a six-time NCAA Regional Coach of the Year as named by the Golf Coaches Association of America. As a professional, Small is a record-setting three time PGA Professional National Champion and has won the Illinois PGA Championship a record-setting eleven times. Former Fighting Illini men's golfer Zach Barlow was hired at the start of the 2014–15 season as the new assistant coach. Barlow was a member of the Fighting Illini's 2009 and 2010 Big Ten Championship teams and spent a year playing professionally on both the NGA Pro Golf Tour and the eGolf Professional Tour.
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